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HCC Foreign Policy Briefs #1

One part of the HCC mission is to educate the West Michigan community about ongoing US foreign policy in Iraq, Israel/Palestine and Afghanistan. In each of these instances the US is either directly involved in military occupations (Iraq & Afghanistan) or providing funding and diplomatic support, as in the case of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

The HCC Foreign Policy Briefs will consist of current analysis of US policy in the three areas of the world we focus on, with particular attention given to how this policy impacts children.

In this first installment of the HCC Foreign Policy Briefs, we include the following:

Afghanistan – Despite the claims from the Obama administration that the US would withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the 13 year US occupation continues, with at least 10,000 US troops operating in Afghanistan. This interview with long time anti-war activist Kathy Kelly and independent journalist Matthieu Aikins aired on Democracy Now on December 29. http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/the_afghan_war_is_not_over